Erotics of Deconstruction takes advantage of over a decade of publications from Derridas seminars to creatively demonstrate the deep material range of deconstruction and emphasise its under-recognised erotic nature. It activates psychoanalysis without the long-embedded philosophical trajectory that forged the human, psychic life and sexuality as categorically distinct from the animal (inherent to dialectics and psychoanalysis). It generates new conversations with Derridas feminist contemporaries as they encounter pressing questions in current critical thought. From the larger frame of life death and the broadest auto-affective relation of inside to outside, to the difficult to grasp interface of conceptual and sensible, Erotics of Deconstruction does not retreat to a reparative life force or erotics of the good, but includes the unsettling friction of an originary relation to violence. Parsed by means of case studies from literature, philosophy and visual culture, erotics in this volume lap at every edge.
Arvustused
I have never been so moved by a book about Derrida, or about sex. It moves, you could say. It dazzles and moves. It moves animal or biological, dorsal, secret, violent, bloody, nonbinary, masturbatory, vocal or spoken in tongues, historical, artistic, maternal, decomposing, technological and more. Just brilliant. -- Gil Anidjar, Columbia University
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Lapping It Up: An Introduction for these Erotics of Deconstruction (Lynn
Turner)
Part I: Procreativity
1. Derridas Tongues (Elissa Marder)
2. Spoonful: The Dorsal Deconstruction of Eroticism (David Wills)
3. Two Pirouettes: The Politics of Spoiling (for) Fun in Preciados
Revolutionary Vitalism and Derridas Death Drive (Eszter Timár)
4. Double Blind Date (Naomi Waltham-Smith)
5. Postscript: Deconstruction and Love (Nicholas Royle)
Part II: Vulnerability
6. Sanguine Resistance: Dreaming of a Future for Blood (Lynn Turner)
7. Touch, Flesh, Wound and the Caress of the Screen (Elizabeth Wijaya)
8. No Deconstruction Without Pleasure: Openings, Tunnels and Holes (Quinn
Eades)
9. Bodies in E-motion: Kofman and Cixous Encountering Rembrandt (Lenka
Vráblíková)
10. Voice and Sextuality (Anne Emmanuelle Berger)
Part III: Panthropology
11. The Masturbating Animal: The Auto-hetero-affection of the Living (Nicole
Anderson)
12. Playing the Field: Non-non-binary Promiscuity (Vicki Kirby)
13. Gene for Gene: Cloning, Sexiness and the (Post)Maternal in Carola
Dibbells The Only Ones (Naomi Morgenstern)
14. Erotics of Decomposition: Cells and their Oceans (Elina Staikou)
Index
Lynn Turner is a Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Poetics of Deconstruction: on the threshold of differences (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-editor, with Undine Sellbach and Ron Broglio, of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (EUP, 2018), editor of The Animal Question in Deconstruction (EUP, 2013) and co-author, with Astrid Schmetterling, of Visual Cultures As Recollection (Sternberg, 2013).
